[POLL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS] Which Social Media Network Are You Using MOST in Your Job Search

[POLL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS] Which Social Media Network Are You Using MOST in Your Job Search 4 These results are nothing short of a wakeup call for many job seekers. The poll results and what they mean Here are the official results of the poll: Which social media network are you using MOST in your job search? LinkedIn (53%, 71 Votes) Not using social media on my job search (16%, 22 Votes) Facebook (13%, 17 Votes) Twitter (12%, 16 Votes) Other (6%, 8 Votes) Started: February 14, 2010 @ 10:00 amTotal Voters: 134 53% LinkedIn No surprise here. From May 2009 to October 2009, LinkedIn grew by 10 million users for a total over over 50 million, only half of whom are in the US. Massively popular and geared towards professionals, LinkedIn is terrific as a virtual resume and networking platform (and that's just in its most basic form). There are even recruiters who work from home, spending all their time sourcing candidates just from LinkedIn.eval True to this poll result, if you're using any social network for job search, this is the one you should be using. For LinkedIn success, check out my LinkedIn archives or if you'd like something more structured, my friend Jason Alba penned a terrific book called I'm on Linked In, Now What??? 16% Not using social media on my job search eval Now THIS is a very exciting result. Why? Because of low-hanging fruit. If you're not familiar with that expression, think of it this way: you're hungry (job seeking) and the nearest tree (social media, here) has easy to reach, just need to pick up your hand and grab it, low-hanging fruit (job opportunities). If you're a job seeker who's not using social media on your job search, you're missing out on free-to-use techniques that can drastically shorten your job search, many of which are taught here on JobMob and other job search blogs. As a teacher, this result also excites me because it means I still have a lot of work to do. A followup question would be- if you're not using social media on your job search, is it because you're just not using social media at all? 13% Facebook Even taking into account my last question- if you're reading this, I'm willing to bet that you're on Facebook. Although Facebook isn't specifically aimed at work, just the fact that so many of your friends, family and business contacts are on it means that it's a tempting place for that first “I'm officially looking for a new job, can you help?” message. As more companies start using Facebook too, such as with Pages like JobMob's or Google's, more people will start taking their Facebook job search more seriously. 12% Twitter Unsimilarly, if you're likely on Facebook, there's a good chance you're not yet on Twitter (although I do know that my Beginner’s Guide To Finding A Job With Twitter has created many converts!). There are still many people out there who don't get Twitter, or who still can't justify a little time on it every day. Which is a shame, because if I were to look for a job today, Twitter is the social network that I would be most using to find a job. And I'm not just saying that because I wrote a book about it (which you can have for free). As long as Twitter is being used by a good chunk of the people in your industry â€" probably the case by now â€" Twitter is the quickest way to build your personal brand while helping and interacting with those people and others around you. 6% Other People who voted this way might be from countries where other social networks are popular, such as MySpace, Bebo or Orkut, or where local social networks have hit critical mass like Netlog in Europe. However, there are also many small, profession-specific social networks as part of Ning (for example) that are worth investing time in if they're favorites in your industry. If you liked this article, you'll enjoy [POLL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS] How Much Time Do You Spend Job Searching Every Day?.

Weekly Recap Working Abroad, Social Media Recruiting More

Weekly Recap Working Abroad, Social Media Recruiting More Getting work experience is important for students! And that is exactly what  Graduates Need Experience  is striving to provide. Have a look at GNE and support a young  entrepreneur. New â€" S.M.I.L.E. Technique for Interviews SMILE is an anagram  I’ve  developed to help you perform better on first time encounters. If you remember this titbit of information, you should find that your performance within interviews increases, and you’re more approachable in Finding Work in 2012: 3 Tips for Success Finding work in 2012 â€" a Tough Challenge? The UK economy is hardly thriving at present, as the ongoing Eurozone crisis and concerns over the failing U.S. manufacturing industry continue to have an impact How to Make Your Blog Career Worthy Many of us enjoy our personal blogs. Unlike the superficiality of Facebook or Twitter, blogging is a way to really express ourselves and our interests. But can having a blog help you land a How Social Media is Affecting Modern Recruiting Practices Do Employers Use Social Media? Ever since you opened a Facebook account and started posting pictures and other personality markers online, you’ve been out there for the world to see. In most cases, people Working Abroad â€" Where People Move and Why [INFOGRAPHIC] As the Western world takes ever so long to come out of recession and recover from high unemployment rates, the East, Asia and South America have much better prospects in growth and jobs. We are looking for recruiting partners to add more vacancies. For more information or any questions, please email careergeek.blog@gmail.com 0

How Do You Find The Career You Want

How Do You Find The Career You Want Finding the right career is something that just about everyone struggles with. Lots of people either find themselves bouncing from job to job trying and failing to find something that they really enjoy, or they get stuck in a boring job that slowly becomes more and more frustrating until the very idea of getting up in the morning to go to work fills them with dread. Obviously, neither of these situations are exactly ideal, so its no surprise that just about everyone has the desire to find a career that they can really settle into and enjoy for the long haul. Of course, doing that is certainly easier said than done. In fact, a lot of people think that finding the right career is as much about the luck of the draw as anything else, since it odds of finding something often seem so incredibly low. However, thats far from the case. Just because something is difficult doesnt mean that its impossible and its incredibly important that you dont give up on trying to find a career that you can really love. In order to make it just a little bit easier, here are some questions that you should ask yourself in order to make sure that youre looking in the right places for your dream career. What engages you? Theres no point putting a lot of time and effort into finding a job if youre just going to end up getting bored after a few months and either moving on to something else or growing to resent your job for leaving you unsatisfied. In order to avoid this then you need to think about what it is that you really want from a job. Are you a creative kind of person, or are you better with hard facts and figures? Do you enjoy abstract concepts and ideas or do you prefer to work with things that are more concrete and definable? There are plenty of resources online to help you figure out what kind of work suits your personality and psychology best. The reality is that there are so many different careers that there are likely multiple paths to help you reach it. Even something as specific as ACS best universities for pilots are available. There really is no limit to the career options available to you. Even within certain industries, there is so much variation that youre likely to find something that fits you like a glove. Not everyone who works in marketing is going to do so in the same way, and not everyone who wants to lead a team of people is going to have the same techniques. By having a job that suits your personality, youre going to find it much more engaging. Where do your skills fit? Of course, its not just about how much you want to do the job; its also about how well you can do the job in the first place. Think about the skills, qualifications, and experience that you have. Where do they fit? What kinds of roles to they give you the opportunity to try? If youre interested in something enough to develop a genuine level of skill in it, then its not going to entirely surprising that jobs that use those skills will be engaging for you. Not only that but working in a position that allows you to use skills that you have is often an incredibly encouraging experience. If you lack a certain set of skills or qualifications that would allow you to do a job that you really want, then dont be afraid to think long term and work to gain those skills so that you can perform that role at some point in the future. There are always ways to find a lot of different ways to push your career forward and create the kind of career that you really want for yourself. Its important to remember that, even if you are following this advice, things arent always going to be easy. Youve got to stick with it even if it feels like things arent going your way. Unless youre extremely lucky, looking for your dream job is going to involve a great deal of rejection, and that can often be enough to leave a lot of people feeling incredibly discouraged. However, the true key to being able to find your perfect career is your ability to bounce back even when you find yourself struggling to find something for long stretches of time.

Road to Me 2.0 14 Book Marketing Ideas For Authors - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Road to Me 2.0 14 Book Marketing Ideas For Authors - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career As I get ready to launch my first ever book, which is entitled Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success on April 7th, I would like to keep you in the loop with how things are going, while teaching you from my experiences. So far in this series, I told you how I got my book deal with Kaplan Publishing, why I believe I was the chosen one to write this book, why I spent over a year of hard work writing it, gave you a snapshot of my first Me 2.0 speaking event at MIT, talked about the main theme in the book (command your carrer) and finally, I revealed my promotional businesscard. Why do most books fail? When I say fail, I mean by publishers standards, not by personal development and career success standards. A book confirms your expertise and opens up new doors for you, especially in the speaking arena and consulting world. I dont think any author could question that. Publishers, such as Wiley, Kaplan and Randomhouse are looking for bestsellers, which are books that sell over a long period of time, even after the marketing campaign has halted. If you go to Amazon, there is a section for bestsellers in a variety of categories. New York Times bestsellers are a dime a dozen, especially ones that stay there for years, such as Rich Dad Poor Dad. From speaking to about a hundred or so authors, its obvious the publishers will make small investments in unknown authors (those who have no track record of book sales), but concentrate their own marketing budget on the celebrity/bestselling authors. This obviously makes it very challenging to succeed because without book marketing, no one will know about your book, thus there will be no sales. What Im trying to say is that if you arent a successful author or have big money to invest in a book marketing campaign, then its hard to get a publishing deal in the first place and then its hard to market it. How you can succeed as an author Its easier to get interviews with blogs, magazines, TV and radio when you become marketable. Its easier to market your book, if youve been building up a network all along, online and offline. If you start a blog the day your book comes out, it wont help you at all and if you try to start building relationships with the media and bloggers a week in advance, then youre out of luck. The good news is that first time authors have a lot of time to build up relationships because the publishing industry hasnt caught up with us bloggers. I finished my book in July last year and it doesnt even come out till this April. Today, I really want to show you how to succeed in marketing your book, which is just as important (if not more) as actually writing it! You need to leverage everything you possibly can, which means if youre company will purchase copies, or your school, then make it happen. Take every opportunity you can to push it out. My book marketing campaign Before starting a book marketing program, set realistic goals and a budget. Based on your advance, how much money the publisher pays you upfront to write the book, you should know how much you can spend on the marketing piece. My goal going in is to become a New York Times bestselling author, but yours may be different. 1. Build the books brand Theres three main ways you can build the brand of your book. The first is by trying to get early press on credible blogs and traditional news sources. I did this by getting into BusinessWeek, The Miami Herald, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, and US News World Report. The second is by gathering your top contacts and getting endorsements from them, raving about how great the book is. When identifying endorsers, always look at celebrities first, then executives at big brand companies, bestselling authors and then academia. It also depends what youre book is about. Here are 2 out of the 34 endorsements I received for Me 2.0. Packed with useful tips, Me 2.0 can help anyone sharpen his or her personal brand. Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind and The Adventures Of Johnny Bunko The Business world is changing and what Dan Schawbel has captured in this book is the pulse of the changing branding market. Gary Vaynerchuk, host and founder of Wine Library TV Finally, get quotes from experts in your book. Thats actually how I helped build the brand of the book to get a book deal! 2. Start a blog already A blog is the single best book marketing vehicles because its pre-qualified buyers. A blog builds a relationship over time with an audience that will either purchase your book to support you or to package the information in your blog into a book, which is linear. If your book comes out next week and you start a blog today, it wont do anything for you, so do it way in advance and work as hard as you can to pump out content. This Personal Branding Blog will certainly help me launch the book because its part of my platform. You can even do what I did by talking about the book up until launch. Some people like Shel Israel are writing their books, while exposing the drafts on their blog. 3. Create a website for your book You actually can create a blog for your book or a traditional site that lists what youre book is about, endorsements, reviews, possibly the introduction, a mailing list signup area, multimedia and an about the author section. Since Ive been building websites for a decade, I didnt have to expense this, but you may have to hire a consultant. To get a better understand of what you can do, visit my Me 2.0 website. 4. Twitter I feel like Im starting to finally unlocking the secrets of Twitter for marketing. By sharing resources, asking questions, giving advice and plugging your own sites and services once in a while, you can really build community. Ill be giving away free books on Twitter close to launch date and driving people from Twitter to Amazon, my blog and the books website. Again, just like blogging, youll want to get as many followers as you can before the book comes out. Follow me on Twitter ?? 5. Personal Branding Magazine After seven issues (the eighth comes out on May 1st), Ive built up quite the magazine distribution list. With the magazine, Im able to advertise the book and send out special promotional deals to that list. Of course that magazine takes up a lot of my time during certain periods, but it will come in handy closer to the book release. 6. Facebook page A book Facebook page can make a real difference in your marketing campaign. Depending on how you use it, you can tighten up the relationship between you and your readers. I would recommend adding your book tour events there and using many of your marketing pieces to build it, such as a video and pictures. Of course youll want to share it with your friends and add the link on all of your sites to promote it. Here is my books Facebook page as an example. 7. Speaking engagements Meeting people online is quite easy, but the relationships are much better forged offline. Ive been practicing my speaking over the past few years and have setup about eight or so engagements at college campuses from now till May to promote the book to the audience directly. Sometimes you can do a book signing, while other times its just you speaking in front of a select group of people. In order to get a speaking opportunity, I recommend you contact someone you know first. If you want me to speak at your event, see my page. 8. Guest post on blogs One of my main strategies in book promotion was to write for two of the top blogs that are relevant to my books topic. I selected Mashable.com and Lifehack.org as the two blogs I would post at once a week, at least up until Me 2.0 was launched. Fortunate for me, these two sites graciously accepted my offer and Ive been writing for them for a while now. I appreciate their support and it gives me an even larger platform to push out Me 2.0 (~300K RSS total). I recommend that you find blogs that will support you. Instead of asking for money, ask to include a link back to your site. 9. Blog outreach Over the past two years, Ive built strong relationships with the blog community. Its safe to say that if you blog about marketing, social media, HR or career development, you probably know who I am or at least I know who you are. Again, this is a long-term strategy. A one-night-stand doesnt turn into a relationship ;). These bloggers will help with my viral marketing program. If youre a blogger and would like to help, please let me know by emailing me at dan.schawbel@gmail.com. . Press release A press release is very important because it announces your book to the world. They can get very expensive though, especially if youre doing a national campaign. The main wire services that will distribute your release are PRNewswire, BusinessWire, MarketWire and PRWeb. They each have their own set of prices and options to have social media components and multimedia, such as photos and video embedded in (creating a social media press release). 11. eBook / bonus material Authors cant really get away with not giving out book teasers anymore. You pretty much have to give samples of your work out for free to get attention and to spread your ideas. By promoting the first chapter of your book, or a book preview, youre drawing people in and making them want the full thing. Come on, how bad do you want to see Transformers 2 after that trailer during the Superbowl? 12. PR agency If you have a budget and need some assistance, you can always hire a PR agency to support your needs. I hired Planned Television Arts, which is a full service book firm. Why are you hiring an agency when you have a lot of the marketing already done? Well, I need some emotional support, they have connections that I dont have with television producers and journalists and I need help navigating through the book launch because Ive never gone through this before in my life. 13. LinkedIn group A while ago I created a LinkedIn group without setting any goals or strategy. Over the past few weeks, Ive resurrected it and turned it into the ultimate Personal Branding Network. Its open for everyone to join! Im using this group to answer peoples questions and start discussions. Im pushing people from Twitter to this group to get more members and continue conversations that were started there in a different setting. When the book comes out, its yet another list I can market to and you can do the same. 14. Viral video I will not be doing a viral video for my book launch sadly, but Dan Pink and David Meerman Scott have done great work launching their books with video. A viral video is great especially if it in fact goes viral and you get thousands or hundreds of thousands of viewers. A viral video could cost a lot of money or it could cost you your time. What really matters is your creativity and how you promote it in the beginning.

Resume Writing - How to Write a Professional Resume in Chicago

Resume Writing - How to Write a Professional Resume in ChicagoAre you considering applying for a job in Chicago and you would like to create a winning resume for the job? Your chances of success will be much higher if you make a good resume. If you want your resume to stand out from the crowd, read on to learn more about resume writing Chicago and how to make a professional looking resume.Right, from the start you should begin by designing a cover letter. This is an introductory page that will help the potential employer to familiarize himself with your personal characteristics and know what kind of career you are going to go for. The cover letter will act as your 'before' to the resume that you are going to submit.The resume itself has to be organized and professional looking. It should contain all the necessary information about your work history and relevant qualifications. The cover letter and resume need to be organized and readable by the reader.Writing a cover letter is not an easy task. You need to make a clear and concise description of who you are, what do you do and what are the reasons why you should be considered for the job? Make sure that you include your contact details and the company name in order to avoid any kind of rejection letter. Your resume will be reviewed first before you get any opportunity to speak to the potential employer.A well-written cover letter is a key to success, because it needs to include all the main points, which can be summarized very easily. A good resume will be written with the help of a professional resume writer and will have to include important points.There are many candidates available and all of them are qualified in different backgrounds. In such a scenario you need to be clever in writing a resume that includes all the things that are necessary. You need to make a professional looking resume and if you take the time to do some research on the internet then you will be able to create a good looking resume in a jiffy.One problem that you might encounter while writing your resume is to find out if the prospective employer knows exactly what he is looking for in a person. With this job you need to follow the same rules. You should try to come up with an idea of the job description, which includes relevant qualifications, the duties that will be required and your salary.Most of all, if you are planning to apply for a job in Chicago you should ensure that your work history is recorded accurately. All the information will be of use when you are submitting your resume.